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The irrigation network consists of over 200 primary canals, some of which stretch up to nine kilometers in length and are ...

History’s first city, at least according to the ancient text known as the Sumerian King List found on a clay tablet, was also ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of canals underneath the world’s oldest city in Mesopotamia, shedding more light ...

Eridu was left dry and uninhabited, preserving it like no other Mesopotamian region with irrigation systems that ended up ...

Archaeologists have discovered a massive and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in southern Mesopotamia, ...

The system, with over 200 major canals and 4,000 smaller ones, was used to divert Euphrates River water to farms. Researchers traced the canals using satellite imagery and geological mapping.

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Atatürk Dam is Turkey’s largest. Named after Kemal Atatürk, the country’s founder, the dam was built on the Euphrates River in the 1980s as part of Turkey’s sweeping Southeastern Anatolia ...